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Constant de Rebecque, M. ac-
count of, 506.
Cook, Captain, discovery of his
narrow escape from assassi-
nation at the Friendly Islands,
355.

Coray, Dr. a modern Greek, no-
tice of, 511.

Corn-laws, remarks on, 327.
Corundum, Swedish, account of,
258.

Corvorant, crested, anecdotes of,
384.

Côte Rotie, on the wines of, 472.
Crystals, See Biot.

Curse, poetic, by Lord Byron,302.
Cuvier, M. his eulogies on De-
sessarts and Cavendish, 531.
Cyperece, on that family of plants,
538.

D

Dallas, Mr. his vindication of the
Jesuits controverted, 269.
Damascus, particulars respect-
ing, 40.

Dangeau, Marquis de, specimen

of his diary, 515.
Decazes, Minister of Police in

France, notice of, 505.
Deglutition, observations on, in
hydrophobia, 398.
Delambre, M. his éloges of Bou-
gainville and of Maskelyne,
527. Of Malus and La Grange,
535.
Delfau, M. his ascent of the
Pic du Midi, 478.
Desessarts, M. eulogy on, 531.
Diamond, cutting, account of, 49.
Dress, obs. on the want of dis-
tinction in, among the English
of the present day, 360.
Dubois, Cardinal, his character,
by the Marq. de Dangeau, 517..
Dykes, in the North of Ireland,

observations on, 249.

E

Earle, Mr. on the influence of
the nervous system, 163.
Eberhard, J. A., notice of, 459.
Edinburgh, history of the Uni-
versity of, 415.

Egypt, campaign of the English
in that country misrepresented
by Ali Bey, 47.
Elastic surfaces, obs. on, 536.
Electricity, See Poisson.
England, opinions of its consti-
tution, and of its conduct in
the American war, by Dr.
Franklin, 22. 135.

Esmark, Professor, on a new ore
of Tellurium, 258.

Eton, Provost of, dialogue re-

specting that office, between
Henry VIII. and Sir T.
Wyatt, 405.
Evening-star, verses to, 95.

F

Farmers, observations on their
general capital, 327.

Feder, J. G. H. account of, 460.
Ferguson, Dr. his extraordinary
case, 164.

Fiji, or Fejee, particulars of
those islanders, 345. 348.
Finow, king of the Tonga Islands,
account of, 341.344. 346.351
-355

Fire, mode of kindling, by a na-
tive of the Aleutian islands,
309.

Fire-Worshippers, a poetic tale,
character and specimens of,

290-299.

Fluid, in the brain, &c. obs. on,
396.

Fatus, monstrous, case of, 164.
Foot, of the horse, remarks on

the diseases of, 436.
Forest, submarine, in Somerset-
shire, described, 256.
Fox-hunting, allegorical stric-
tures on, 362.
Franklin, Dr. specimens of his

private letters, 20-28. 133-
139. His religious creed, 25.
Frontignan wine, account of, 473.
Functions, on the calculus of,
Part II. 54.

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G

Gay-Lussac, M. on Iodine, 538.
Geronstere water, at Spa, ana-
lysis of, 159.

Glen Tilt, on the geology of, 251.
Good, remarks on the power of a
man to do good, 23.
Goodlad, Mr. on a tumour in the
face, 161.

Government, new, not to be
formed without faults, 134.
A virtuous may be a cheap go-
vernment, 135. Remarks on,
521.

Gout, on the effect of Colchicum
Autumnale in that disease, 48.
On the cooling treatment of,
434.
Greeks, modern, on the habits
of, 234
Account of two
learned individuals, 511, 512.
Gregor, Mr. on Tremolite, 257.
Gunpowder, improved mode of
keeping in Walker's patent
barrels, 109.
Guyton-Morveau, M. on Pyro-
metry, continued, 532.

H

Hailstone, Mr. on the geology

of Cambridgeshire, 251.
Hallé, M. on Vaccination, 539.
Heat, observations on, 537.
Heerat, description of that east-
ern city, 264.
Hermitage, account of the wine
so called, 472.
Hillsborough, Lord, anecdote of,
by Dr. Franklin, 27.
Hinda, daughter of an Arab
Emir, poetic delineation of,

292.

Hippopotamus, account of, 144.
History, antient and modern,
philosophical views of, 150-
158.

Holland, Dr. on the manufacture

of Sulphate of Magnesia, 52.
Home, Sir Ev. on the effects of
medicines through the blood,

and on Gout, 48. On the Tad-
pole, 52. On the fossil re-
mains of an animal, 54. On
the feet of animals moving
against the law of gravity, ib.
Horner, Mr. on the geology of
Somersetshire, 255.

Horse, good and bad qualities
of, 447.
See Foot.

Hottentot, on the anatomical
structure of, 162.
Hyde-Park, delights of a fashion-
able drive in, 364.
Hydrocharides, memoir on those
plants, 532.

Hydrophobia, cases of and ob-
servations on, 397.
Hypersthene, account of that
mineral in the Isle of Sky, 244.

I and J

Ice, at the bottom of rivers, re-
marks on, 51.
Ice-house, natural, near Besan-
çon, 480.
Jerusalem, account of its great
Temple, 37. Of the city, 38.
Jesuits, origin of that order, 270.
Their effect on society dis-
cussed, 272-285.
Jews, estimate of their numbers
in the whole world, and con-
siderations respecting, 543,
544.
Ilderim, his attack on Abdallagh
poetically depicted, 372.
Inclosure-bill, general, observa-
tions on, 216.
Insects, new species of, 332,333-
Interjection, observations on that
part of speech, 86.
Iodine, memoir on, 538.
Jones, Dr. E. G. on the waters
of Spa, 158.

Ionian Islands described, 235.
Ireland, on the geology of its
N. E. counties, 246. 249.
Irish-Inn, dramatic scene in, 317.
Iron, native, on a mass of, 50.
Ithaca and the neighbouring
islands described, 235.
Kant,

K..

Kant, Prof. account of his sys-
tem of philosophy, 461.
Knight, Mr. T. A. on ice at the
bottom of rivers, 51. On the
action of leaves of plants, ib.
Mr. Thomas, on the
binomial theorem, 57.

L

Lagrange, M. memoir of, 535.
Lambert, J. H. account of, 460.
Language, English, remarks on,
87.

Languedoc, wines of, 472. On

the Mistral, a remarkable
wind there prevailing, 476.
Larynx, on the ossification of,

162.

Law, good obs. on the study and
practice of it by an English
barrister, 166. et seq.
Laws of England, remarks on,
under the allegory of Armata,
by Lord Erskine, 366.
Leaves of Plants, obs. on, 533.
Legs, observations on the cure
of wounds in, 433.
Lens, crystalline, on the struc-
ture of, 53.

Leverian Museum, its dispersion
strongly censured and regret-
ted, 386.

Life, its delusions poetically
compared to the mirage of the
deserts, 379.

Light, See Arago, Biot, Brewster.
Limnoria tenebrans, obs. on that
perforating insect, 333.
Lincolnshire-Wolds, geology of,

[blocks in formation]

alogy of Sky, 237. On the
geology of Glen Tilt, 251.
Magnesia, sulphate of, on its
manufacture, 52.

Malus, M. memoir of, 535.
Manfred, soliloquy of, 301. Other
speeches of, 303-307:
Mania, on the traces of it after
death, 398. On its nature,
399.
Manuscript of Sir T. Wyatt's
poems, in the Harington fa-
mily, 407.

Marble, statuary, in Scotland,
account of, 252.

Marcet, Dr. on the case of Dr.
Ferguson, 164.

Marshal, Dr. sketch of his life,
395.

Maskelyne, Dr. memoir of, 527.
Massinger, obs. on his plays, and
on a selection of Beauties from
them, 319.

Maunoir, Prof., on a monstrous
fœtus, 164.

Mecca, particulars respecting,

29.
Mendelsohn, Moses, account of,
459.

Meteorology, obs. in, 535.
Mirage, that phænomenon ob-

served in the kingdom of
Caubul, 2, 3. Beautiful poetic
comparison of it with the de-
ceptions of human life. 379.
Said to have been observed in
the South of France, 477.
Mistral, a curious wind, peculiar
to Languedoc and Provence,
476.
Mont Blanc, poetically cele-
brated by Lord Byron, 302.
Monuments, antient, curious -
cluster of, in Beloochistan,
261.

Morel, Mr. on a gun-shot-
wound, 162.

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Mornay, Mr. on a mass of native
iron in Brazil, 50.

Mosaic account of the creation
supposed to have partially
reached

reached the natives of the Philosophy, antient and modern,

Tonga islands, 356.
Muscles, See Wardrop.

N

Natural History, great recom-
mendations of the study of,

140.

Nervous system, on the influence
of, 163.

Nickel, mode of detecting it in
iron, 50.

Night, oriental, poetic repre-
sentations of, 375. 379.
Nitrat of silver, obs, on its effect,
internally taken, of blackening
the skin, 165.

Odier, Dr. on the death of Saus-
sure, 164.
O'Donnel, General, account of,
509.

Oil, its use in stilling the waves,
310. Its specific gravity a
great obstacle to swimming in
it, 341.
Orleans, Regent Duke of, his
character drawn by the Mar-
quis de Dangeau, 517.

P

Palestine, description of, 35.
Palisot, M. on the leaves and
medulla of plants, 533. On
the Cypereæ, 538.
Paradise and the Peri, account
and specimens of that poetic
tale, 285-290.
Parliaments, annual, shewn to
have existed in this country,

220.

Penitence, beautiful poetic deli-
neation of, 289.
Percy, M. on vaccination, 539.
Peri, poetic tale of, 285.
Peshawer, account of that city
in Caubul, 7.
Phillips, Mr. on the Oxyd of
Uranium, 246.
Philo, obs. on the works of, 453.

sketch of, 450.

Pic du Midi, dangerous ascent
of, 477.

Pitch-fountain, in France, de-
scription of, 480.

Pitt, Mr. his communications
with Dr. Price on the Sinking
Fund, 80, 81.

Plants, on the action of leaves
of, 51.

Plattner, Ernest, account of, 459.
Poetry, by a native of Afghaun,
translated specimens of, 13,'14.

of England, before the
16th century, obs. on, and
specimens of it in the time of
Henry VIII. 124. 129-131.
Poisson, M. on the distribution
of electricity, 527. On elastie
substances, 536.

Pope, documents relative to his

disputes with Bonaparte, 484.
Population of Bokhara, 17. Of
the principal towns under Ali
Pacha, 230.

Pouhon water, at Spa, account
of, 159.

Price, Dr. particulars of his life
and character, 77.
Privateering, Dr. Franklin's sen-
timents on, 138.

Pronoun, English, remarks on,
88.

Providence, Divine, observations
on the agency of, in particular
cases, 438.

Prussia, on the present state of,
520.523.
Prussian Edict, written by Dr.
Franklin in 1773, his anecdote
respecting, 27.

Pudendum, on an affection of,
161.

Pyrola Umbellata, on the diure-
tic effects of, 162.
Pyrometry, continued essay on,
532.

R
Ramond, Baron, his meteorolo-
gical observations, 535.

Reform,

Reform, Parliamentary, Dr.
Franklin's opinion on, 21.
Reimarus, H. S. works of, 460.
Respiration, remarks on the
organs of, 537.
Revolution, French, observations
on its causes, 523. On its al-
leged termination, 524. On the
employment of persons who
had been engaged in it, 525.
Richard, M. on the Hydrocha-
rides, 532.

Riddle, by Sir T. Wyatt, 409.
Rivesaltes, famous sweet wine of,
473.

Roget, Dr. on Nitrat of Silver,
165.

Rollock, Mr. first professor in
the University of Edinburgh,

419.

Ruff, account of that bird, and of
the trade of catching it, 387.

S

Salt, remarks on the repeal of

the duties on, 201.
Salt-mines of Cordona, obs. on,
258.
Sandwich-islands, ready appre-
hension of the natives of, 314.
A British vessel presented to
the King of, ib. Remarks on
the probability of their being
seized as a colony by some of
the European powers, 339.
Savings'-banks, obs. on, 336.
Saussure, Prof. account of his
death, 164.
Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, pedigree
of the Princes of, 68. Por-
trait of the present Prince,
71.

Saxony, history of the Princes
of, 64.

Scotophaga Ceparum, characters
of that new species of insect,
332.
Seton, its use in fractures, 161.
Seymour, Lord Webb, on a cli-
nometer, 257.
Shoeing of horses, remarks on,
437.

Shoulder-joint, case of its re-
moval, 163.
Sighs, a poem, 96.
Sinde, remarkable form of go-
vernment of that oriental state,
263.

Skey, Dr. on the structure of
Barbadoes, 250.

Sky, Isle of, account of its mine-
ralogy, 237.

Small-pox, antiquity and pro-
gress of, 72.

Somersetshire, on the geology of,
255.

Somerville, Dr. on the Pyrola
Umbellata, 162. On anato-
mical peculiarities in the Hot-
tentot, 162.
Sovereignty, and government,

maxims respecting, 520.
Spa, on the mineral waters of, 158.
Spar-Cave, in the Isle of Sky,
described, 239.

Speech, on the gradual formation
of, 85.

Stadion, Count, his intercourse
with Wieland, 497. Character
of, 498.

Stansfield, Mr. on a fracture of
the Os Humeri, 161.
Stones, meteoric, obs. on, as
mentioned in the Psalms, and
by Joshua, 146.
Subscriptions for relieving the
poor, good obs. on the appli-
cation of, 330.
Sugar-islands, Dr. Franklin's opi-
nion respecting them as colo-
nial possessions, 139.
Sulzer, J: G. memoir of, 459.
Sun, on the nature of that celes-
tial body, 435:

Surrey, Earl of, temp. Henry

VIII. particulars of his life,
and specimens of his poetry,
113-132.

Swan, wounded, curious physio-
logical facts exemplified in the
case of, 389.

Swedenstierna, M. on the Swedish
Corundum, 258.

Systême de la Nature, probably

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